Planning a trip in the autumn taking in Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile and Montevideo (the order of visiting the cities is open). I’ve been looking for an affordable Business Class fare, at least on the long haul sector.

The best I can come up with is LX to Buenos Aires via Sao Paulo for around GBP 1,800 return, with a LAN Chile flight across the Andes for about GBP 500 return (economy). The visit to Uruguay would have to be by land.

I put some dummy dates for the autumn into Swiss’ website booking engine and got a fare just under GBP 2,000 to Buenos Aires and about the same to Santiago. These were non-flexible Business Class fares.

Thanks for the info re the “internal” flights. I hadn’t thought about flying across to Montevideo, but at that price….

I’m probably looking at late November or early December, so at least time is on my side.

One minor conundrum – why is it that every time I take a trip to a European destination, the pound depreciates against the Euro but appreciates against the dollar, and vice versa happens whenever I go to a dollar-linked currency country? As I go to China next week, I expect the markets are already braced for the dollar rising against the pound! Sod’s Law?